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“A Jaguar is an Awful Cat”. Animals and Animal Metaphors in James M. Cain’s Novels
Linguae &: Rivista di Lingue e Culture Moderne, 2018 James M. Cain is often linked with hard-boiled writers such as Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. Actually, he wrote a different kind of novels, where there are no ‘private eye’ detectives and very few murders.
Giulio Segato
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Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 707-717, July 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
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Plant, Cell &Environment, Volume 49, Issue 7, Page 3952-3962, July 2026.ABSTRACT The symbiosis between nitrogen‐fixing rhizobia and plants is considered mutually beneficial, yet its indirect effects on other organisms remain understudied. We examined how rhizobia symbiosis in Phaseolus vulgaris influences the behaviour and performance of Diabrotica balteata larvae. Specifically, we tested larval preference for nodulated (R+
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Епистемологија изгубљености: одређене духовне вертикале у америчким noir филмовима
Godišnjak, 2021 In this paper, the author analyzes certain specifics of spiritual atmosphere in American films noir during 1940s and 1950s. There were certain existential strivings and contextual factors that generated the atmosphere of decadence and claustrophobia in ...
Stefan Sinanović
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Journal of Religious History, Volume 50, Issue 2, Page 175-195, June 2026.Anti‐Protestantism was one of the reasons for the revival of missions during the interwar period. By the 1960s, however, Protestants were less and less often mentioned as a threat to missionary efforts, and the decline in inter‐confessional tensions was increasingly considered a relic of the past.
Giacomo Canepa
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Fossil Hegemony and Capitalist Realism in Tropic of Orange
Future Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange (1997) through the lens of Mark Fisher's influential concept ‘capitalist realism’. Scholars of petrofiction have pointed to a political ambivalence in the representation of fossil fuels, where a better understanding of fossil capital can overwhelm as much as galvanize.
Claire Ravenscroft
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Subsistence Through Disappearance: Theology of the Unseen in the Films of Michelangelo Antonioni
Future Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.ABSTRACT The present study contends that the theology of Michelangelo Antonioni's 1960s cinema is structured by a reductio ad absurdum logic, whereby the presence of certain qualities is proven by the portrayal of their absence. It is argued that Antonioni's intention to show what is by specifying what is not may have been rooted in a modernist ...
Vuk Uskoković
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Baltimore in The Wire and Los Angeles in The Shield: Urban Landscapes in American Drama Series
Series. International journal of tv serial narratives, 2017 The Shield (FX 2002-08) and The Wire (HBO 2002-08) are two of the most ever critically acclaimed TV-shows and they both can be seen as the finest developed film noir proposals produced in television.
Alberto N. García
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The Dynamics of Reading Genre Fiction: Researching and Teaching Interpretive Practices
Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 2, April/May/June 2026.Conceptual model positioning genre fiction as a site for studying how narrative form organizes reader interpretation, identifying four dynamics—iterability, narrative interest, serialization, and spectacle—to guide empirical research on reading processes.
Robert Jean LeBlanc, Amy Stornaiuolo
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Travma, İntikam ve Özneleşme Seyri: Hollywood’da Domestic Noir
EtkileşimSinema, son bir asır boyunca yalnızca izleyicileri eğlendirmekle kalmayıp, aynı zamanda üretildiği coğrafyanın toplumunu, tarihini ve kültürel dinamiklerini anlamamıza olanak tanıyan, günümüze kadar gelebilmeyi başarabilmiş önemli bir sanat dalıdır. Öyle
Ece Erol, Emre Ertürk
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